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ART
Cover Winter Witch [ink and paper] • Gary Kelley
14 Untitled [ink and markers] • Eric Piatkowski
19 Untitled [pencil and digital] • Anne Lambelet
25 Untitled [digital mixed media] • Matt Manley
33 Storm [ink and digital] • Catherine Byun
41 Untitled [ink] • Claire Stigliani
FICTION
14 Mudface • Dariel Suarez
19 Delicate Tables • David Ebenbach
25 A Wayward Landmass • Jane E. Martin
33 The Tough Guy Test • Valerie Fioravanti
41 Petrichor • Keegan Bosch
NONFICTION
3 The Golden Hour • Lynn Casteel Harper
44 Cancer Baby • Karen Babine
POETRY
11 A Long Road Never Takes Us • Felicia Zamora
12 Signaling • Darren Morris
18 Attention • Erika Jo Brown
18 Prayer • Erika Jo Brown
23 The Arsonist • Christopher Locke
23 If God Was DJ RUN • Sean Thomas Dougherty
24 The War Reporter Paul Watson • Dan O'Brien
24 The War Reporting and the Poet Share a Curse • Dan O'Brien
32 How Am I Driving? • Chad Davidson
32 Forever Stamp • Jack Martin
40 Fate and Other Remedies • Karen Harryman
40 Lakes of the Southern Plains • Bruce Bond
42 Host • Jason Myers
43 Plaintive Lives • Jesse Graves
43 To Listen Is to Hear • Athena Kildegaard
43 Antique Store • Athena Kildegaard
REVIEWS
45 Crosscuts: Brief DVD Reviews • Grant Tracey
46 Synecdoche: Brief Book Reviews • Rachel Morgan
48 A Religion of Freedom: Ingersoll's Cane and Thomas Paine [Past Perfect] • Chris Highland
MISCELLANY
2 From the Editors
47 Contributors